the final answer to everything? (strange website)

Perhaps we're supposed to not pay as close attention to the tags as we have been. Maybe that's why they're gone now..

Originally posted by The Conspiracy Follower

Originally posted by Mechanic 32
Did you take the ATS survey?? I think that that is where the points came from. I cannot verify this, but after I took the survey, I noticed my points had increased by that amount.

That's funny. I really did

So, the speculation about points being awarded for "being on the right track" is a false alarm. Nice. Then I'm sorry to bring this back.

Thats alright. Just my observation, as ATS never announced a points award for participating in the survey.

Originally posted by Jenna
Perhaps we're supposed to not pay as close attention to the tags as we have been. Maybe that's why they're gone now..

That sounds like the best answer to me.

I think they purposefuly took the tag box away. It was useless anyway. I don't think the tag with this long name for some clinical procedure was added by someone from above, it could have been an unaware member.

I think the rabbit hole is near.

where is the "r" number now?

nope. still 71

[edit on 7/25/2006 by Mechanic 32]

Originally posted by Enrikez

Originally posted by Jenna
Perhaps we're supposed to not pay as close attention to the tags as we have been. Maybe that's why they're gone now..

That sounds like the best answer to me.

probably...or maybe it's saying no more clues
or both

Ok have another sugestion, being that google analytics seems to use these sties, maybe we should submit the link to all of these search engines. anyone for a try ?
Here is the code which makes an array for the code to loop thrugh later:

//-- Auto/Organic Sources and Keywords
var _uOsr=new Array();
var _uOkw=new Array();
_uOsr[0]="google"; _uOkw[0]="q";
_uOsr[1]="yahoo"; _uOkw[1]="p";
_uOsr[2]="msn"; _uOkw[2]="q";
_uOsr[3]="aol"; _uOkw[3]="query";
_uOsr[4]="lycos"; _uOkw[4]="query";
_uOsr[5]="ask"; _uOkw[5]="q";
_uOsr[6]="altavista"; _uOkw[6]="q";
_uOsr[7]="search"; _uOkw[7]="q";
_uOsr[8]="netscape"; _uOkw[8]="query";
_uOsr[9]="earthlink"; _uOkw[9]="q";
_uOsr[10]="cnn"; _uOkw[10]="query";
_uOsr[11]="looksmart"; _uOkw[11]="key";
_uOsr[12]="about"; _uOkw[12]="terms";
_uOsr[13]="excite"; _uOkw[13]="qkw";
_uOsr[14]="mamma"; _uOkw[14]="query";
_uOsr[15]="alltheweb"; _uOkw[15]="q";
_uOsr[16]="gigablast"; _uOkw[16]="q";
_uOsr[17]="voila"; _uOkw[17]="kw";
_uOsr[18]="virgilio"; _uOkw[18]="qs";
_uOsr[19]="teoma"; _uOkw[19]="q";

It's still on 71. And now I have to go back through the answers again...

Originally posted by Mechanic 32
I think the rabbit hole is near.

where is the "r" number now?

nope. still 71

[edit on 7/25/2006 by Mechanic 32]

I still show '71'


EDIT:

Ooops. You already knew that.

About the search engines, I suggested that, but I dunno how to 'submit a link' to a search engine.

[edit on 25-7-2006 by Enrikez]

As far as the counter goes, im pretty sure that it is updated manually. If you look at the code, the r# is hard-coded, with no logic or any signs of php or asp or anything like that.

It just jumped to 78.

It's at r78. Going up, but slower than earlier.

Originally posted by The Conspiracy Follower
I think they purposefuly took the tag box away. It was useless anyway. I don't think the tag with this long name for some clinical procedure was added by someone from above, it could have been an unaware member.

kuhn I believe mentioned he added it in ... and I found the answer by directly clicking on it and finding the thread number ... that was the answer to #29.

They WERE useful in the past. Maybe they aren't useful now (or too many people are putting in BS tags).

It says r78 now. It shouldn't be too long now if we really do have to wait till it says 101.

I really need to refresh my page before I post!

[edit on 25-7-2006 by Jenna]

Originally posted by Jenna
It's still on 71. And now I have to go back through the answers again...

r78

Are we sure that 101 is our target?

This is why I believe the tag box was removed.

This was just moved up to the top of BQB:

www.abovetopsecret.com...

I don't think we're sure about anything really. It's just been hinted at a few times that something needs to be 101. The counter is just the most logical option.

Originally posted by Theodwra
Are we sure that 101 is our target?

no confirmation, but given the clues...

So I just managed to trick google into giving me a link to

thefinalanswertoeverything.com

I wonder if we can use the same technique on other sites?

You all know that if you search for a domain that google doesn't recognize, it will give you a link to it anyways? This will work for getting a refferal from google for the game site. I wonder if the other search engines have similar functions? If they do, then we can go around to different engines and search for the domain, thus tricking the enigne into giving us a referal link.

As long as we keep clearing our cookies, we can rack up another twenty or so sites pretty quickly. Does anyone else know how to do this sort of thing on the other search engines?